"With no business training or college degree she was the only person left to keep the 60-year-old chain in the family - her only training was having worked on the weekends at a branch in Redding as a teenager."

I'm surprised her parents didn't prep her more on how to run the business. Granted, she doesn't have to know all the ins and outs (pun intended) of running the business...so long as she hires good people to do it for her, but still...seems like that could be a bad deal over the long haul.

slayer199:"With no business training or college degree she was the only person left to keep the 60-year-old chain in the family - her only training was having worked on the weekends at a branch in Redding as a teenager."

I'm surprised her parents didn't prep her more on how to run the business. Granted, she doesn't have to know all the ins and outs (pun intended) of running the business...so long as she hires good people to do it for her, but still...seems like that could be a bad deal over the long haul.

Her dad died of an overdose when she was 17, and she went off and got married the same year. That shows a number of things:

1. Dad had no judgement2. Dad died unexpectedly3. Adults had very little influence on that girl

runescorpio:She got teased by her classmates? What was that like I wonder.Hahaha your family has money!

Well TFA says she went to a private school, which likely means all the kids there had rich families. Since there aren't poor people to pick on in the school they likely pick on each other using other criteria. Things like "Your family only makes 7 figures a year, mine makes 8." "Your family is a bunch of upstart youngblood riches, jumped up gutter trash. Mine's been wealthy for 5 generations." "Your family actually had to work to earn their millions? How pedestrian."

I had In-n-Out when I was in Santa Cruz because people said it was so good. I remember not being particularly impressed and a little disappointed and still preferring Wendy's but maybe I didn't get the right burger or something.

Yeah but if I suddenly got all that wealth in my early 20s thanks to my mom dying, and my dad dying of a drug overdose at 17 to boot, I don't think I'd be fully normal either.

She has all the makings of a super hero....or villain.

Because she's the hero the fast food industry deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt her. Because she can take it. Because she's not our hero. She's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A burger knight.

Incidentally, one of the top results for "burger knight" is this pic. Not exactly what I had envisioned, but it works.

The article missed one of the most interesting facts of her inheritance which was that her uncle Rich died aboard a corporate jet, a Westwind 24A, caught in the turbulence of a 757 in 1993 and almost killed her grandmother who had disembarked at an earlier stop. If that had happened she would have inherited the company upon the death of her father instead of the death of her grandmother.

Subtle_Canary:Abe Vigoda's Ghost: sure haven't: How succesful of her to inherit an empire.

So far it looks like she is growing the empire she inherited. There's something to be said for that.A lot of people would have managed to piss it away.

so she inherited good business partners as well. The infrastructure and leadership to the run the business was probably in place before she was born. If she fell off the world tomorrow it would STILL be a successful business, they would just change the name on the check the 'owner' gets.